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quantity of Water was paft away, fo that ia 

 about two Hour's Riding we could hardly 

 perceive that there had been any Rain at alK 

 This memorable Place is known by the Name 

 of j4UWijhaL 



OElober the 4th. From AUWiJhd we pro- 

 ceeded for Tadmor^ fome of the Ruins of 

 which we perfwaded our felves we could fee 

 the Day before ^ perhaps it might be the 

 Caftle, which is more than half an Hour's 

 diftance from the City our way lay South- 

 ward, but the Gut in which we travelled 

 would not permit us to keep a dired courfe : 

 However, in about an Hour's Walk, we pafl: 

 by Amor Mountains four Guide call'd them 

 Tout Amor) through a Gut or Rent, both 

 fides of which fb diredly anfwered one to 

 the other, they would tempt a Man to be- 

 lieve they w^ere feparated by Art, for an en- 

 trance into the Country ^ but it mufl: have 

 been a work of prodigious Labour and Char- 

 ges to have cut through fuch vaft Moun- 

 tains : And if any one was fo hardy as to 

 attempt it, he certainly grew weary of his 

 Undertaking for the Ground is levelled 

 but a very little way, and almoft as fooa 

 as we were well got within the open fpace,^ 

 we were obliged to afcend another Hill, and 

 lb our Road continued over Hills and Val- 

 leys interchangeably all the way. On the 

 left Hand, fome diftance from the Road, we 

 law a Sheck^s Houfe on the top of a high 

 Hill, which made a better fhow than ufually 

 thofe Buildings do, but being allured by our 

 Guide it was a moderq Strudure, and eager 

 too to come to the principal Place we aim- 

 ed 



